Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...anything to say about the fact that Judge John Duff of the Municipal Court, in drawing up the Boston summons, declared that Life's pictures were not indecent, obscene, nor impure, but might corrupt the morals of youth
...work with Dick Harlow," he says enthusiastically. The one lesson he's learned from the prize-ring he is quite sincere about, for he declares that, ". . . . professional boxing is not a game I'd recommend for any boy, no matter who he is!" Politics and avaricious managers corrupt boxing, he says, and in spite of all beliefs to the contrary, it is rare that a fight is actually "fixed...
...picture is a repetition of the old story of how law and order gradually conquered the bad lands. Lewis Stone plays his role as a corrupt judge of the old regime with great understanding, and Dennis O'Keefe as the tight-lipped federal deputy is also on the side of Virtue, but Mr. Beery's personality dominates the picture, and when he is finally and symbolically arrested, a pang of remorse sweeps over the audience...
...when Poet Goga was Minister of Interior, he conducted what is still remembered as "Rumania's most corrupt election," and won. Last week, he prepared for the Rumanian election scheduled to begin March...